3/25
OLAD W2D1
Push press from the floor
65x3
75x3
80x2x3
75x2x3
70 band pull aparts
Tabata running
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For she is Bagsy, whatever see wants , she claims!!
Great work in here!!
(Totally did not search up Bagsy in Urban dictionary)
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Thanks for the words, Tim. Glad my username could be a source of amusement. Hope you are feeling better this weekend!
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3/26
OLAD W2D2
Pullup
+10x3
+15x2x3
+17.5x3
+10x3
+17.5x3
Set a timer for 15 minutes: carry 85# sandbag and do a set of pushups every time the bag is dropped. The extra fifteen pounds made a big difference here. I accumulated 46 pushups and topped those off to 50 when I went inside.
Some band pull aparts
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3/27
3 mile run 23:11
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3/28
AM
OLAD W2D3
Jumps
SSB squat
120x3
130x3
150x3 PR
125x3
135x3
145x3
PM
Six hill sprints + 1200m cooldown
Perfect weather. I think I will start pushing these more. Sucks because my leg strength starts to die out much faster than my lungs.
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Great job!
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congrats on your pr
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Heck yes to the SSB squat rep PR!
How are you liking OLAD, thus far?
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If so maybe option 1 or 3 are more likely to make a difference than more Z-presses.
Congrats on all the PRs recently!
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I appreciate all of the comments!
To be honest I am craving a little bit more volume, so I might switch things up when this cycle is over. But I don’t dislike OLAD, either. It is nice to literally focus on only one lift a day.
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3/29
OLAD W2D4
Press from the floor
55x3
60x3
62.5x3
57.5x3
60x3
67.5x2 (ugh)
10 min 12kg waiter walk
75 band pull aparts
Fit into the eighth hole of my belt rather than the seventh today.
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Congratulations or condolences.
Honestly, neither. Firstly because the difference is not huge and secondly because I am not gung ho about training and such right now. Losing a couple pounds would be nice after stuffing myself for weeks, but that will probably (and maybe it already is) happen without me trying so hard. Intentional weight manipulation in either direction demands too much effort from me than I want to exert right now.
TLDR; trying to get a little stronger over the next several weeks, and losing a couple pounds would be cool. Not really a goal or anything though.
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Dang… that reads brutal. (overhead hold the whole time!?)
Not brutal – baby weights here. More or less the whole time, the only break being between switching sides.
3/30
OLAD W2D5
Deadlift
195x3
210x3
230x3 PR
190x3
205x3
235x2 PR, barely failed the third rep
A small five-pound PR. Damn, really thought I had the third rep on that last set. I guess I should be pleased with this given my current general apathy toward eating and lifting as well as how my belt fits.
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Congrats!
This. And besides, you were working hard—you’ll get it next time!
Thanks!
Not to be too much of a downer and go off on a tangent, but I do think at least a couple years of my hard work in the weightroom have not yielded much return. It’s normal for me. Sure, last year and this year have been a little bit better. I don’t attribute my current apathy to this, though it always looms over me. I believe in hard work over time, and yes, I do think that the work I invested in Deep Water a couple months ago is showing. However, more days than not I don’t have hope for my overhead strength, for example.
That 230 x 3 looked about 84 times easier than 235. I imagine if you’d taken 235 first that 3rd rep would have been there and pretty cleanly, too.
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